You appear to be using Date::Manip ... correct?
  1. what time zone are all of these boxes running on?
    ParseDate assumes the TZ found in the environment when parsing, so "last sunday" in localtime can conceivable be noon the previous saturday (or thefollowing monday) in GMT. on top combine that you take the seconds since epoch returned by UnixDate and you then pass it to localtime ... which is only going to compound your problem.
  2. If you are going to use Date::Manip, why not use the Date_IsWorkDay function in conjuntion with teh configurable WorkWeekBeg, and WorkWeekEnd settings?

In general: make the message of your test give you more data (like exactly what 'time' (fully formated with an explicit timezone) you are passing to your function.

In reply to Re: Inscrutable test failure by hossman
in thread Inscrutable test failure by dsheroh

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